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"Detroit" Rat

John Kilsonk's Hooptee drawings with design, and racing thoughts. A perfect counterpart to the "Early Rat Race" above written by the man who dueled BNST in a postal Memorial Day 500 lap rat race with a finish seconds apart.

North West Goodyear Rules

Modifications to the AMA rules to turn the event away from the very good but big-bucks engines currently needed to be competitive.

 

Early Rat Race in Southern California

Covering rat racing in Southern California from 1958 to 1970. An article by the worlds oldest pit man, Boris Grundge. Recently found alive, Boris still had this parochial view of rat racing, the engines and people in exciting times.